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| Laradon participant and Foothills Animal Shelter staff take a photo with a sweet dog in a cheetah print coat. |
In case you missed it, Foothills Animal Shelter is one of the largest animal shelters in the metro-Denver area. It is also where Laradon participants have been volunteering custodial crews five days a week for nearly three months.
Foothills Animal Shelter recently visited Laradon with Santa Claus as the driver of the shelter's Mobile Unit. This unit is used for low-cost community clinics and community adoptions. Santa and his elves brought some very gentle, but fun-loving dogs who were pampered with lots of belly scratches and loving pats on the head from Laradon staff and participants.
Heather Cameron, Executive Director of Foothills Animal Shelter, says that having Laradon participants and staff providing custodial services has been a tremendous help during their recent move to a new and much larger facility of 30,000 square feet. She says it has helped her staff stay focused on animal care duties for the hundreds of homeless pets they care for.
Laradon participants enjoy working at the shelter and are learning some valuable job skills such as being thorough in cleaning, team work, and responsibility and kindness for animals. We are very grateful that Foothills Animal Shelter has given Laradon this great opportunity for our participants to become involved in our community in this way. We also thank them for spreading some great holiday cheer and for recognizing the hard work of our participants.
